Dot Net Mafia

Group site for developer blogs dealing with (usually) .NET, SharePoint 2013, SharePoint 2010, Office 365, SharePoint Online, and other Microsoft products, as well as some discussion of general programming related concepts.

I’ve had a personal interest in figuring out how to play videos from the Office 365 Video Portal in a Univeral Windows App (UWP) in Windows 10 since Microsoft Ignite. In reality, the process isn’t that difficult, but there wasn’t a lot of details out there on how to put the pieces together until recently...

If you are using Office 365 to deploy Office 2016 Preview (Office 365 ProPlus) to your desktop, you may have found that you get hit with multiple prompts to activate the product even though it is already activated. You can click Cancel on the Activation but it will prompt you again when you open...

New features are coming fast to Office 365 Groups. As administrators we have been looking for ways to simplify the management of groups. This includes functions like adding groups, deleting groups, and adding members to groups. At Ignite last week in session BRK3114 they showed us some...

Logic apps are a great new feature in Microsoft Azure that lets you connect to a variety of systems and create triggers and events. This allows you to reproduce some interesting light workflow functionality in an easy manner. It comes with connectors for common Microsoft products like SharePoint...

Today, Microsoft released their Office Universal apps for Windows 10 Technical Preview . That’s a long way of saying that touch-friendly Modern Applications (formerly known as Metro and Windows Store apps) finally exist for Windows tablets. I’ve had the pleasure of using the apps throughout...

Since the release of Windows 8, we have all ben wondering when we would see a touch-optimized Office experience. We saw apps delivered to both iOS and Android first, but still nothing for Windows other than Office 2013 for desktop. All of that changes today as Microsoft has release previews...

The new functionality of Office Delve, Boards , just came out recently. As a developer, you might be thinking how can I access this data in my own applications. This post will help you get started. These queries use the new Graph Query Language (GQL) syntax of Office Graph. As...

Updated: January 9th, 2015 You might have heard today that the new Boards (aka Pinterest) feature for Office Delve was released to First Release customers of Office 365. I was lucky enough to have it show up already in a few of my tenants, so I thought I would share my initial experience. ...

In working on one of my upcoming articles, I captured the steps to activate a domain registered through GoDaddy.com to your Office 365 subscription. This will serve as a reference to that article when it comes out. Since Microsoft and GoDaddy have a partnership, adding a domain is incredibly...

When working with SharePoint Apps in Visual Studio 2013, you might receive the following error during deployment. App installation encountered the following errors: @"Error 1 CorrelationId: c423d0af-c32b-4702-8be3-a3c1a4b3010e ...